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Camera chips survive bus blast and tell a tale

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Hank Hogan, [email protected]

After the bus blew up, the search was on for survivors. However, the goal was not to rescue people. Instead, the objective was memory chips. Before the blast, the chips had been in cameras mounted inside the bus. Afterward, they were part of the debris. Investigators combed through the wreckage of the retired and empty mass transit bus and recovered the chips. Upon testing, they found that the data prerecorded on the chips could be retrieved successfully from 14 of the 16 devices. Those results are encouraging, said Stephen Dennis, technical director of the US Department of Homeland...Read full article

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    Published: May 2009
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